How good is the Pentax Remote Assistant software that comes with the K20D. On what situations would it come handy to use it for tethered shooting? I haven't tried it yet so suggestions and opinions on where and when it comes handy would be greatly appreciated.

I am assuming one of the uses would be for studio photography if i am not mistaken, when the instant display of the shot would be very helpful, to be used instead of the display on the camera itself.

thanks

Amin

I have got the other version of it that I bought a couple of weeks ago the Sigma 530DG SUPER Flash and although I am limited in experience in the photography field I am inclined to say its a pretty good flash.

But may be the more experienced ones here in the forum could give a more valued opinion regarding its performance.

Amin

Jack

I think I got the answer even without you replying. If I had gone to your website and checked before writing that question I would have known what you do.

Great looking stuff I see on your website and I can see you are pretty good at it. So your recommendation comes from huge experience in the field.

thanks again, definitely going to give it a go at those papers

Amin

Jack

that link seems really great. I am going to order some from them and give it a go.

May I ask you, how do you end up hanging the printed photos from that canvas paper? Do you have a wooden frame made to which you staple it, this way losing an fraction inches from each border? Or you stick it using double sided tape? Or you just print in that paper for the sake of a canvas look.

Thanks for your help.

Amin

Graham

I think in the end getting some wooden frame made of square pine is something well worth considering, I have given it a thought and been playing with that idea if any other better way doesn't crop up.

But just briefly googling canvas inkjet paper lots of links came up and unless I am confusing many big manufacturers make them and seems we can get others also not so expensive. If these are really what we are looking for even the prices seem quite reasonable and I would be quite willing to get a few prints and playing around and filling my kids bedroom walls with the pictures and then raising up the stakes and displaying the images into the living room as I start mastering better the fine art of photography

Amin

Hi everyone

Back with a question please. I wanted to hang some pictures on the walls, specially of the little ones that I managed to capture with reasonable good quality. I did some quick checks on the internet and found that there are canvas inkjet printing papers that I can buy. But besides the crude and straightforward general way that I could do by sticking some double sided tape etc and manage to hang it on the wall, is there a better way of doing it? I am sure some of you might be doing it in a more visual appealing way and I wanted some advice and suggestions.

Wife had even bought some time ago canvas hanging stuff, this was before even I bought my K20D and she had been asking me for ages to help her hang them on the wall but I never got around it , but they are just typical square canvas bases that people buy and hang and alter what they can stick on it with limited choice of their manufacturer's own images, you basically buy it from them from a very restrictive selection of images and peel it and stick it on the canvas board and it stays there.

Googling terms like pictures on canvas etc brings up some companies that I have to send the images for them to print it and they put it up on a canvas and they cost a bomb, typically around £45 which I definitely wouldn't like to go down that route. I just wanted something simple that I could print and hang it and when felt like changing then print something else and put it up.

This is a result of wife liking some of the shots taken with my Pentax 50mm 1/4 lens and having managed to make her forget to ask to see the bill on expenses for my new exciting hobby

I am wondering if buying frames and using them would be the only option available, so any help, suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Amin

Scott

There are no files at all in my folder. I just ran the pixel mapping function again, it went through the whole process and then when it finished I took out the card and slotted into the computer, but nothing in there except couple of shots I had taken prior to pixel mapping.

How do you get those files you mention? I thought this was a simple process as it seems self explanatory.

I guess I better shuffle the manual again. In the meantime if anyone knows what I am doing wrong I would appreciate a comment.

many thanks

Amin

Scott

I dont know what you mean by pixel mapping putting 6 files on, all I did was just go to menu and find pixel mapping and then run it, that's all I did. Unless I did it wrongly but I thought it was pretty straightforward. May be some of the veterans in the forum could clarify this to us please.

Thanks

Amin

Cobra

In my links as Terry very kindly explained after checking it the image with the hot pixels was taken before I updated my firmware and also before running the pixel mapping by going through the menu.
It seems that after doing that it resolved the problem.

So if you follow the advice above like I did you might manage to resolve the problem.

People here have a huge amount of knowledge in photographic matters and my experience in this short period of time that I have started coming into the forum is that they are extremely helpful and they are spot on with things.

I am just a newbie and this has been a well of knowledge for me.

So do not panic and just follow the steps that they have advised you to do first.

Amin

I am not worried, I am happy . Just wanted some help with clarification, that's all. And after you all very kindly clarified the facts I am satisfied.

This of course is also because I am a beginner in the field so certain things do make me look again and if I do not understand it I get concerned. But you all have been extremely kind and patient to always help me out and explain the technicalities of photography.

What I actually had noticed and made me upload the images to ask for help from you more experienced in the field were not as much the odd pixels that I saw on the second link (actually there are a few more rather than just one on the far right end corner) but the fact that when I enlarged the images I was expecting the images to be totally pitch black, which obviously I could well be wrong and in photography things might not work that way, but instead I notice clusters of lighter shades of black scattered around the screen.

Now is it my screen problem which is not to the level to display the resolution? Or this is just normal and this is well expected as I enlarge further and further the image. At certain point I can really see shades of grey, but for that I obviously need to magnify the image to ridiculous proportions so i suspect that the answer for that is "no need to even go there" .

But any explanation about this would be really an eye opener.

Thank you very much

Amin